Morning Catch

Jeffrey H. Munger

May 22, 2013

2 min. watch

“It’s so exaggerated by current standards of taste that I think it’s very hard for us to appreciate it today.”

Curator Jeff Munger on an eighteenth-century broth bowl produced by the Vincennes factory in France.

Contributors

Jeffrey H. Munger
Curator

Photography by Paul Lachenauer

Rights & Permissions
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G Major), K. 525, III. Minuetto: Allegretto

Art Mentioned

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), Vincennes Manufactory French, Soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels, gold, French, Vincennes — Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Manufactory Vincennes Manufactory
ca. 1752–53

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